New York Times, and once quoting the current University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.”
The banned book discusses the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of gender dysphoria from its recent edition of “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” Anderson told the DCNF.
“Amazon, curiously, still sells that,” the author said. “Gender dysphoria is listed in the most widely respected and consulted book on psychiatric disorders because it is a serious condition that causes great suffering.”
“There is a debate, however, which Amazon is seeking to shut down, about how best to help patients who experience gender dysphoria,” he continued. “
March 03, 2021
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The Alabama state Senate voted Tuesday to criminalize performing gender transition surgeries or hormone therapy on minors who identify as transgender.
Under the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, doctors would be prohibited from treating Alabama minors with hormone therapy, surgery, or puberty blockers “intended to alter the minor child’s gender or delay puberty.”
The bill would also require schools to let parents know if their child has the “perception that his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex” and establish criminal penalties for violations.
SB10 has passed the Alabama State Senate. The companion bill, HB1, has not yet passed the House.